..."characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world . . . they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...will always supply, and observation will always find" (7: 62). The world takes over from England. Hence the favor the poet has gained and kept slides into...

...Theatre in 1987. For Suzman (who would hardly dispute Dr Johnson's view of Shakespeare's characters as 'the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the...will always supply, and observation will always find' (Johnson 1968:62)), the play 'shows us a crosssection of most societies', and in the process 'addresses...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world... they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...will always supply, and observation will always find. Party Hearty With the three-day Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769, Shakespeare became a full-fledged cultural...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world;. . . they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...will always supply, and observation will always find. ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare...

...fabulous, equable, and meticulous plays of the French and their eighteenth-century English imitators.30 "His persons act and speak by the influence of those...the whole system of life is continued in motion." "This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life . . . from which...

...the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters ... are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as...the whole system of life is continued in motion." 'Preface to Shakespeare,' in A Johnson Reader, ELMcAdam, Jr. and George Milne, eds. (New York: Pantheon,...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world His persons act and speak by the influence of those...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly...

...of common humanity" - and by the absence of a judgmental perspective in Johnson's appraisal of "the general passions and principles ... by which all minds...and the whole system of life is continued in motion" (Shakespeare 1, 62). It has become axiomatic that Johnson's conception of literature is ethical, for...

...interest in them." For Johnson, Shakespearean characters transcend the time-bound and the temporary. They are "the genuine progeny of common humanity,...always supply, and observation will always find." Thus they are exemplary, and, in the profoundest sense, ethicaL What did Johnson think of Shakespeare's...

...can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly...